Like it or not, Donald Trump is about to be president again. And given his first tumultuous term in office, we can expect a good deal of chaos and confusion to follow. Much of that daily drama from January 2017–2021 was a result of Trump’s short attention span, which led to dizzyingly fast news cycles […]
WASHINGTON — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at […]
Any hopes that two-time failed presidential candidate Marianne Williamson had left politics and returned to her roots as a spiritual guru were dashed Thursday. That’s when the vocal supporter of alleged sexual assailant and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced via her Substack (of course) that she is launching a campaign to head up the […]
Author and activist Noa Tishby has enlisted Gwyneth Paltrow to usher in the first night of Hanukkah as part of her #BringOnTheLight video series. Tishby, who wrote two best-selling books, 2021’s Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth and 2024’s Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew (co-authored with Emmanuel Acho), and Paltrow, […]
The dramatic summer feud among the cast of It Ends With Us took a darker turn last week when Blake Lively accused Justin Baldoni, the movie’s costar and director, of sexual harassment on set and a subsequent plot to tarnish her reputation. On Friday, Lively filed a legal complaint against Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, Wayfarer […]
Outgoing independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has spent her final months in office missing votes, tanking a union-friendly National Labor Relations Board, and praising the obstructionist procedure known as the filibuster. She has also violated campaign finance law by taking pricey trips to places like Rome and California wine country, according to a Wednesday complaint […]
Getty Images Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint against It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and a campaign to “destroy” her reputation. According to the legal filing, she accuses Mr Baldoni and his team of attacking her public image following a meeting in which she brought along her actor husband, […]
Outgoing independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has spent her final months in office missing votes, tanking a union-friendly National Labor Relations Board, and praising the obstructionist procedure known as the filibuster. She has also violated campaign finance law by taking pricey trips to places like Rome and California wine country, according to a Wednesday complaint […]
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The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images In late October, a week before the presidential election, Kamala Harris’ cybersecurity team called Apple looking for help. A spyware detection tool had flagged anomalies on two […]
